Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-07
PITY PARA GRAPHS.

I6SUCo III ANCW 1Ol
A PLAN is on foot to build an opera
house at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Ducks stuffed with yams ready to
roast are sold in Washington mar
kets.
YALE students recently returned
279 stolen signs to avoid q police
raid.
The pedal either, q new musical in
strument, is coming into New York
favor.
RECENT estimates place the number
OF school teachers in this country at
325,OOO.
In San Francisco there are four
journals regularly published in Chinese
characters.
A COPPER coin in his pocket turned
aside bullet fired at q California lad
by highwaymen.
MANY engineers will not drive an
even-numbered locomotive, so strong
is the superstition against them.
The Atlantic Ocean was crossed for
the first time by vessels exclusively
propelled bv steam power in 1888.
The natives of Yucatan are the only
people near the equator, according to
q traveller, who pay any attention to
personal cleanliness.
A PROUD father in Duquesne, Pa,
has named his first boy Thomas Ben
ton Schnatterlv Boyle Cleveland Gen
JUS of Liberty Flemming.
The women householders of Belfast,
Ireland, have the right OF municipal
suffrage. Many women in England
can vote for town officers.
ONE Teddy Wick, of Chelsea, En-
gland, has won ELS and q silver med
al by shaving seventeen men in seven
seconds less than an hour.
TWENTY thousand boxes of raisins
are coming from California on the
double quick to be ready for distribu-
tion in the East during holiday time.
A CHICAGO physician has a collec-
ton of several hundred bullets which
he extracted from the bodies of Union
soldiers who were shot during the
war.
MORE than half of the area of Maine
is north of the northern line of New
Hampshire and Vermont. More than
half of Maine is still an unsettled
wilderness.
AN anti-adulteration society is send.
ing circulars to bakers forbidding them
to use in their connections certain col.
oring substances that are known to
be injurious.
Mrs. HOLMES has just reached her
home in Cincinnati after 3, OOO-mile
yacht cruise through the big lakes
She managed her own yacht during
the entire trip.
On plot of ground at Starke, Fla,
four different crops have been raised
in succession since October, 1886
They were sweet potatoes, corn, ruta.
bagas and beans.
A sHIP-BUILDING firm at Greenock,
Scotland, is constructing what will be,
when completed, the largest sailing
ship in the world. 1t is to have ca.
pacity Of 5000 tons.
SPEAKING of the colored fair now in
progress at New Orleans. the Times
Democrat says it is worthy of the pat.
ronage of all the people of that city,
white as well as black.
RACE antipathies have been pushed
to such q ridiculous extent IN Austria
that the Moravian fire brigade he's
been divided into two sections, one
German and the other Czech.
WOMEN have their own way at Lex.
ington, Miss. The express agent is
Miss Dixie Cole; the telegraph opera
tor, Miss Mollie Haskins, and the
postmistress, Miss Emma Wright.
A PUBLIC park is to be made of the
old Chinatown at Chico, Cal. The
Chinese are offered tree ground, 10000
feet of lumber, and free water if they
will locate outside the town limits.
"OoLoNG and Hyson matinee" is
ing of an afternoon tea. chocolate
and Coffee would, perhaps, be more
correct designation of such occasions.
MRS GRUMPY, OF the New York Mail
and Express, tells how the divorced
wife of man not long ago married
again applied to his second wife for
assistance and received q check for
$1,000.
AN Englishman recently attempted
to steal q hot plum pudding, but found
it so uncomtortably warm that he
dropped it. He was arrested, and is
now serving three months sentence
in prison.
For the benefit of foreigners who
cannot afford to visit this country to
see how beautiful the autumn foliage
can be, albums containing autumn
leaves are being made up and sent to
European cities.
THERE is a. cotton plant at Mar.
coosee, Fla, that is over five feet
across the branches and has from $50
to 400 blooms. 1t contains cotton
in all it's branches, from the swelling
bud to the mature article.
The fine marble roof OF Girard
College is much injured by the chem.
ical action on the marble from the
fumes of thousands of furnaces
When put on it was expected that
the roof would last as long as the
building.
A REPORTER, in describing the muir
der OF man named Jorkins said
s"The murderer was evidently in quest
of money, but, luckily, Mr.. Jorkins
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